Panoramic view across the landscaped lawn of the Broadmoor Casino, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows the two-story frame hotel with a colonnaded portico, wrap around porch/balcony, friezes, bays, and lunette windows, a bandstand pavilion or gazebo and annexes. A horse, rider, and dog are on the gravel road.
Date
[between 1896 and 1897?]
Notes
Glass negative is masked with paper and paint; has touch ups in sky.; Penciled on back of photoprint: "The First Broadmoor Casino."; Title printed on glass negative, with: "New Hotel." Hand lettered: "Hotel and Casino Broadmoor, Colo." Lettering for titles reads: "[Crip]ple Creek & Colo Springs Illust[rated] Photos by H. S. Poley & Co."; Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 7 x 19 cm. (2 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board.; R7001704990
Description
1 negative : glass ; 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.); 1 photographic print : albumen ; 6 x 23 cm. (2 1/2 x 9 in.)
Subject
Broadmoor Hotel and Casino (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Broadmoor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Casinos--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
